What’s Happening at Burnout Proof Academy This Month?
Burnout Proof Book Club: The Gifts of Imperfection
Recording of the live discussion has been posted!
“Let go of who you think you’re supposed to be and embrace who you are.”
Join us as we read and discuss:
The Gifts of Imperfection, by Brené Brown
From the book’s description: “Now more than ever, we all need to cultivate feelings of self-worth, as well as acceptance and love for ourselves. In a world where insults, criticisms, and fears are spread too generously alongside messages of unrealistic beauty, attainment, and expectation, we look for ways to “dig deep” and find truth and gratitude in our lives. A new way forward means we can’t hold on too tightly to our own self-defeating thoughts or the displaced pain in our world. Instead, we can embrace the imperfection.”
Purchase and read or listen to The Gifts of Imperfection
Answer discussion questions for each section of the book
Watch the discussion recording or choose another final reflection project
Receive 0.75 GS RID CEUs!
This is an on-demand, self-paced course worth 0.75 GS CEUs. If you haven’t yet registered, just click below and you’ll get instant access to everything!
This is an on-demand, self-paced course worth 0.2 GS CEUs. If you haven’t yet registered, just click below and you’ll get instant access to everything!
Burnout Proof Book Club: The Gifts of Imperfection
“Let go of who you think you’re supposed to be and embrace who you are.“
Join the Burnout Proof Book Club to create community and grow your support system with other wholehearted sign language interpreters as we learn and practice what it means to embrace perfection.
The Gifts of Imperfection, by Brené Brown
From the book’s description: “Now more than ever, we all need to cultivate feelings of self-worth, as well as acceptance and love for ourselves. In a world where insults, criticisms, and fears are spread too generously alongside messages of unrealistic beauty, attainment, and expectation, we look for ways to “dig deep” and find truth and gratitude in our lives. A new way forward means we can’t hold on too tightly to our own self-defeating thoughts or the displaced pain in our world. Instead, we can embrace the imperfection.”
Answer discussion questions for each section of the book
Attend the live Zoom discussion, watch the recording, or choose another final reflection project
Receive 0.75 GS RID CEUs!
Don’t miss the upcoming Live Discussion, happening May 18, 2022 from 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm pacific. Put it on your calendar now!
This is an on-demand, self-paced course worth 0.75 GS CEUs. If you haven’t yet registered, just click below and you’ll get instant access to everything!
Burnout Proof Book Club: The Gifts of Imperfection
“Let go of who you think you’re supposed to be and embrace who you are.“
Join the Burnout Proof Book Club to create community and grow your support system with other wholehearted sign language interpreters as we learn and practice what it means to embrace perfection.
The Gifts of Imperfection, by Brené Brown
From the book’s description: “Now more than ever, we all need to cultivate feelings of self-worth, as well as acceptance and love for ourselves. In a world where insults, criticisms, and fears are spread too generously alongside messages of unrealistic beauty, attainment, and expectation, we look for ways to “dig deep” and find truth and gratitude in our lives. A new way forward means we can’t hold on too tightly to our own self-defeating thoughts or the displaced pain in our world. Instead, we can embrace the imperfection.”
Answer discussion questions for each section of the book
Attend the live Zoom discussion, watch the recording, or choose another final reflection project
Receive 0.75 GS RID CEUs!
Don’t miss the upcoming Live Discussion, happening May 18, 2022 from 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm pacific. Put it on your calendar now!
This is an on-demand, self-paced course worth 0.75 GS CEUs. If you haven’t yet registered, just click below and you’ll get instant access to everything!
Interpreting in times of stress is not business as usual.
Worry and uncertainty make for more charged interpreting situations and personal lives, and can trigger reactions that aren’t always aligned with our values.
This workshop will teach tools from the Learning Zone Model, mindful awareness, and neuroscience to better work with our brains during times of stress.
We’ll create a triage-care practice to provide daily maintenance through stressful times while building empathy, emotional regulation, and resilience.
This is an on-demand, self-paced course worth 0.2 GS CEUs. If you haven’t yet registered, just click below and you’ll get instant access to everything!
Fall is an exciting time at Burnout Proof Academy!
We’ve been working on a new way to earn CEUs while getting burnout support and building community, and it will be available first exclusively to members of our Facebook group and email list.
Speaking directly to anyone who relates to putting others’ needs and feelings before your own, Untamed, by Glennon Doyle, reconnects us to the wild inside each of us.
Join Burnout Proof Book Club as we read Untamed by Glennon Doyle. Come create community and grow your support system as you learn and practice what it means for you to quit pleasing and start living.
All you need to do:
Enroll in the course
Purchase and read or listen to UNTAMED
Answer discussion questions for each section of the book
Participate in the Live Discussions or watch the recordings
Receive 1.1 GS RID CEUs!
Our first Live Discussion was held in ASL and focused on getting to know each other and discussing the prologue and part 1 of the book.
The hour was packed with poignant honesty and real-time revelations, including real talk about:
Our untamed selves (with pictures!) – who we are when we don’t care what others think
Why the term ‘people-pleasing’ might be just another way to beat ourselves up
The movie Frozen, and how our most powerful gifts can hurt us when we don’t know how to harness them for good
What we lost when we learned to please others over pleasing ourselves
Our own ‘snow globes’ – the ways we make ‘snow flurries’ to keep from acknowledging the dragon at our center
When you register, you’ll get instant access to the recording and all the info to prepare for the second Live Discussion happening September 29th, 2021 from 5 – 6 pm pacific.
This is an on-demand, self-paced course worth 1.1 GS CEUs. If you haven’t yet registered, just click below and you’ll get instant access to everything!
If you are reading along with us but were unable to make the first live discussion, here’s another opportunity!
Join the live discussion to real-talk about:
The ‘yuck’ that’s leftover after handling a problem.
How holding everything in and doing for everybody else keeps us up late at night.
The shame we feel from HAVING emotions.
Taking up a hugging practice.
The struggle of saying what we need or how we feel.
The inbox in our gut where we store our uncompleted stress.
That it’s ok not to be ok.
This is an on-demand, self-paced book club offering worth 1.3 GS CEUs, with a Live Discussion opportunity. Click below to register and get instant access to everything!
Don’t miss the upcoming Live Discussion, happening August 11th 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm pacific. Put it on your calendar now!
Summer is the peak of the harvest – bringing fullness of life and emotions.
If you’re feeling energetic and expansive, this protocol can support you in enjoying your people and expressing yourself.
This season can also bring up grief and sorrow. If you’re feeling it, this protocol can help you to remember you’re not alone, to connect with your body’s wisdom, and to express your emotions.
As you apply these oils, bring your attention to your senses:
Inhale the fragrance of each oil separately, and the combinations
Feel your own touch as you apply them to your body lovingly
See the colors of the bottles and the amber drops of liquid
Set intentions with each oil application, grounding yourself in what you know to be true
Invite the properties of each oil to inspire your intentions:
Cedarwood – You are not alone. Identify the supportive people who love you unconditionally.
Grapefruit – Develop awareness of your body and its important messages.
Spearmint – Express yourself with confidence and clarity.
Safety + Efficacy
Dilute essential oils with a carrier oil for increased efficacy and decreased skin sensitivity.
Citrus oils like Grapefruit can produce photosensitive reactions. Use on skin covered by clothing if you’ll be in the sun.
Some oils are hot or ‘spicy’ to the skin, including cassia, oregano, thyme, peppermint, and spearmint. Dilute to decrease this sensation.
May the energy of this season work in and through you. May you enjoy the fruits of your labor and much needed rest. May you know the love that surrounds you, may you connect to your source and to others who help you remember your worth.
So many cities across the country are already getting intense heat.
Here in Portland temps are in the record-breaking triple digits. We got our pool set up and AC units in the windows (houses in Portland don’t usually come with AC), and we’re eating lots of cold fruit and salad.
I hope you’re finding ways to stay cool and safe!
July 2021 Self-Care at Burnout Proof Academy
Healing Interpreter Burnout: Complete Your Stress Cycle
Image: The Insightful Interpreter
Are you feeling exhausted?
Burnout and emotional exhaustion can have negative impacts on your health, relationships, and work.
It can be hard to know how to rescue yourself, let alone find the energy to take positive steps.
Good news! You don’t have to live like this. A long, fulfilling career is within your grasp. This course can help.
You will explore:
Your stress cycle: what it is, how to complete it, and how it affects you when you don’t
Techniques for self-regulation that you can use during your work day
How to form and integrate new, healthy habits to help heal and prevent burnout
0.35 GS CEUs through The Insightful Interpreter, processed by Interpretek
Healing Burnout Group Study Guide
Get 0.2 additional CEUs for gathering your friends and discussing what you learned in the Healing Interpreter Burnout course.
If you like to learn and grow within community, we have a treat for you! The Group Study option is scheduled to be available for the Healing Interpreter Burnout course through The Insightful Interpreter, the week of July 6th, 2021!
Support for Insecurity and Self-Doubt
Close the Gap in Confidence, Skills, and Self-Analysis for Sign Language Interpreters with a Deaf Mentor
Did you miss the Facebook Live with Shanna Grossinger in our Burnout Proof Collective Facebook group?
If you are reading along with us but were unable to make the live discussion, here’s another opportunity!
Join the live discussion to real-talk about:
The ‘yuck’ that’s leftover after handling a problem.
How holding everything in and doing for everybody else keeps us up late at night.
The shame we feel from HAVING emotions.
Taking up a hugging practice
The struggle of saying what we need or how we feel.
The inbox in our gut where we store our uncompleted stress.
That it’s ok not to be ok.
This is an on-demand, self-paced book club offering worth 1.3 GS CEUs, with a Live Discussion opportunity. Click below to register and get instant access to everything!
Don’t miss the upcoming Live Discussion, happening August 11th 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm pacific. Put it on your calendar now!
Book Club courses will return in the Fall with some great picks. We learned many helpful things from this survey, thanks to all who participated!
A few key takeaways:
Wednesday evenings were a clear winner
Imposter syndrome was requested as a topic for reading, and I’m happy to say just about every one of these books will support us there!
And the winner is…..
UNTAMED, by Glennon Doyle
Live Discussions September 1st & 29th, 2021
We’ll be trying out a new format, meeting once to kick off this new read – getting to know each other and discuss first impressions of the book – and then again at the end of the month to discuss the rest of the book, share takeaways, and connect more deeply with each other.
Thanks to those who suggested this new format! I’m looking forward to meeting with you twice!
Fourth Place Tie
Hope in the Dark
My Grandmother’s Hands
Watch for these book club offerings Fall of 2021 and Winter of 2022!
Recalibrate | July 2021 Oil Protocol
This is a time of taking stock and opening to recalibration. Be with yourself in the discomfort.
Locate the gaps between where you are and where you want to be. This requires getting radically honest with yourself about your current experience.
Can you allow it? Can you name every nuance of it? And even more, can you feel it and stay with it as long as it wants to move in you – without inflating or stoking the flames?
Apply this protocol and then follow your body as it wants to move: dancing, crying, resting, or punching pillows.
Allow what’s alive in you to be honored and expressed, and allow it to subside when it’s over.
As you apply these oils, bring your attention to your senses:
Inhale the fragrance of each oil separately, and the combinations
Feel your own touch as you apply them to your body lovingly
See the colors of the bottles and the amber drops of liquid
Set intentions with each oil application, grounding yourself in what you know to be true
Invite the properties of each oil to inspire your intentions:
Melaleuca – between eyebrows – tune into your energetic boundaries and seal the leaks.
Cypress – rub on belly in a circular motion – encourage movement and flow throughout your core.
Cardamom – inside navel – allow deeper emotions to surface and be attended to.
Tangerine – heart + inside wrist creases – activate creative energy to process and move with your emotions.
Safety + Efficacy
Dilute essential oils with a carrier oil for increased efficacy and decreased skin sensitivity.
Citrus oils can produce photosensitive reactions. Use on skin covered by clothing if you’ll be in the sun.
Some oils are hot or ‘spicy’ to the skin, including cassia, oregano, thyme, and peppermint. Dilute to decrease this sensation.
The past year has been a doozy!!! As more people get vaccinated, COVID restrictions are lifting, and we are navigating the potential return to more face-to-face time.
Gathering with others in person might be what you’ve hoped and dreamed for, it might be stirring up your deepest fears and anxieties, or you may be feeling both excitement and dread simultaneously. Here’s a helpful article I read this week titled, Advice to the anxious for eventually meeting in person again. I’m definitely in the anxious/excited mixed-emotions camp!
The bottom line is: whatever your reaction to this transition…
You’re normal!!
This is a good time to create or update your self-care plan to support your transition to summer and to ease your nervous system through another shift. Here’s part 1 of a series to help you be with difficult feelings – like the ones you might be having now – and to give you tools to take with you into the summer:
This hour was packed with poignant honesty and real-time revelations, including real talk about:
The ‘yuck’ that’s leftover after handling a problem.
How holding everything in and doing for everybody else keeps us up late at night.
The shame we feel from HAVING emotions.
Taking up a hugging practice
The struggle of saying what we need or how we feel.
The inbox in our gut where we store our uncompleted stress.
That it’s ok not to be ok.
This is an on-demand, self-paced book club offering worth 1.3 GS CEUs. If you haven’t yet registered just click below and you’ll get instant access to everything!
Our first book club was so much fun! I can’t wait until we get started on our next book in the fall 2021. But I need your help deciding which book we’ll be reading next.
Give yourself over to review, renewal, reflection, and rest, as you cross the threshold from spring to summer.
Slow down.
Give yourself permission to feel the sun on your cheek, the breath in your lungs, even the frustrations and the hurts. Make a deal with yourself to offer patience and curiosity whenever possible.
This oil protocol will serve as a reminder and energetic guide.
Thyme – release and forgive Wintergreen – surrender Ylang ylang – connect with your inner child Basil – renewal Magnolia – compassion Frank – truth
Dilute essential oils with a carrier oil for increased efficacy and decreased skin sensitivity.
Leave a comment and let us know:
What are your self-care plans this summer? How will you rest, play, renew, and release?
May you find a growing softness within that buoys you through any storm. May the crossing of this seasonal threshold bring you a renewed sense of peace, presence, and patience. May you receive all the love, support, and grace that surrounds you.
This hour was packed with poignant honesty and real-time revelations, including real talk about:
The ‘yuck’ that’s leftover after handling a problem.
How holding everything in and doing for everybody else keeps us up late at night.
The shame we feel from HAVING emotions.
Taking up a hugging practice
The struggle of saying what we need or how we feel.
The inbox in our gut where we store our uncompleted stress.
That it’s ok not to be ok.
This is an on-demand, self-paced book club offering worth 1.3 GS CEUs. If you haven’t yet registered just click below and you’ll get instant access to everything!
Are you growing in new or uncomfortable ways?
Do you feel like you’re shedding an old skin?
Oregano – Stop trying to play God. Reconnect to your own and others’ humanity. Sidestep judgement and invite compassion. Accept your imperfections while opening to curiosity and grace.
Marjoram – Connect. Connect with yourself, connect with others. Loving relationships can heal the most painful scars. Invest in them. Open to them.
Arborvitae – Grace surrounds you. Receive it. Rest in it in every moment that you’re able. Soak it up and learn to trust in it.
Neroli – Partner with Life. Believe that it’s on your side. Acknowledge the way it works in you – your feelings and intuitions are a part of Life’s communication network.
May we find peace and growth in the in-between times. May the rain showers and sunbeams remind cleanse and warm us. May we keep reaching deeper inward, and ever toward one another.
I look forward to all the ways we’ll connect in the month ahead!
The vernal equinox on March 20th ushered in a new season that can feel like the start of the new year in the northern hemisphere.
You may be noticing new life emerging around you and feeling the urge to open the windows or blinds (depending on how cold it still is where you are!), clean and clear your space, and be outside in nature.
Here are some of the exciting things emerging this month at Burnout Proof Academy.
April 2021 Self-Care at Burnout Proof Academy
We’ve been busy creating new burnout support offerings, and are so excited to share them with you!
Healing Interpreter Burnout:
Complete Your Stress Cycle
The Insightful Interpreter is hosting the course Healing Interpreter Burnout: Complete Your Stress Cycle taught in English and ASL by Brea Cross-Caldwell.
You might be experiencing burnout. Burnout and emotional exhaustion can have negative impacts on your health, relationships, and work.
It can be hard to know how to rescue yourself, let alone find the energy to take positive steps.
Good news! You don’t have to live like this. A long, fulfilling career is within your grasp. This course can help.
You will explore:
Your stress cycle: what it is, how to complete it, and how it affects you when you don’t
Techniques for self-regulation that you can use during your work day
How to form and integrate new, healthy habits to help heal and prevent burnout
0.35 GS CEUs processed by Interpretek, an approved continuing education sponsor. $70
*Videos for this course are presented in both American Sign Language and spoken English. Instructions and activities are provided in written English.
*The Insightful Interpreter recognizes that Deaf and BIPOC interpreters have unique skill sets, expertise, and valuable perspectives that benefit the interpreting field. These interpreters also experience bias, oppression, and barriers in our field and our society; in response, we offer discounts on all courses to self-identified members of these groups.
*This course is intended for working sign language interpreters, students of interpreting, and Deaf and DeafBlind community members.
This course is available on-demand, so you can read along at your own pace and go deeper in the online discussion forums. We’ll do a live discussion through Zoom on April 28, 2021 from 5:00 – 6:00 pm pacific – we hope to see you there! If you can’t make the live discussion, the recording will be posted so you won’t miss a thing.
1.3 GS CEUs processed by Interpretek, an RID approved continuing ed sponsor. $65
As you apply these oils, bring your attention to your senses:
Inhale the fragrance of each oil separately, and the combinations
Feel your own touch as you apply them to your body lovingly
See the colors of the bottles and the amber drops of liquid
Set intentions with each oil application, grounding yourself in what you know to be true
Invite the properties* of each oil to inspire your intentions:
Citronella – the oil of appetite for life – a potent cleanser and clearer, helping us to see the path forward. Encourages healthy exchange of energy and collaboration.
Arborvitae – the oil of divine grace – aids in releasing what’s no longer serving us, calling in support from all directions, and embracing our humanity – in all its messy beautiful imperfection.
Sandalwood – the oil of sacred devotion – encourages heightened spiritual awareness and clarity. Assists in identifying the beliefs, dynamics, and behaviors that aren’t aligned with our values.
Wild Orange – the oil of abundance – opens the windows of our soul! Reconnects us with inspiration, joy, play, and creativity.
*From Emotions and Essential Oils: A Reference Guide for Emotional Healing
May you allow space for newness, for birth, for the vast unknown of possibility.
I look forward to all the ways we’ll connect in the month ahead!
